Eau Rouge/Raidillon

Thank you, sir.

Greetings and rixing regards from Busted Flat in Baton Rouge to Busted by FIA at Eau Rouge.

Singing in the rain has turned into I do my crying in the rain.

Exactly.

I know it top to bottom.

Eau Rouge.

Eau Rouge is amazing, man.

Flat out.

Flat out.

But then the race reported that it's twice as steep as Spa.

They wrote in an article, it's twice as steep as Eau Rouge.

And I'm like, twice as steep? Are you mental? Going up a fucking solid wall?

Don't let a fact get in the way of a good story, Mr.

Flat-out blast through that Arden forest.

So you need to be somewhere up the top of the Eau Rouge to see them come up

there.

185 miles an hour through

And again, which one? In this case, Spa 2017.

He and Perez made contact twice on the run toward Eau Rouge, with the second incident damaging both cars and wrecking their chances of a double points finish, which for Force India, at that time especially, were critical.

There had already been disputes between the two of them, which had came out with public warnings and hopes that it would never happen again, but this time, this was the straw that broke the camel's back, or in this case, Vijay Mallya's back, and it led to a public declaration that there would be, from henceforth, serious consequences and serious restrictions on how those two would engage with one another should they meet on track.

All for the sake of safeguarding the team's constructor's position, because you've got to remember, force india at that time were capable of being up in p four in the constructors they could sometimes be a real dark horse when things were clicking on essentially the pit war locked down hard on those two especially the frenchmen so i would call that a very very spicy and significant sporting consequence You're hired to race a racing car and then you're being told you are not allowed to race a racing car in a certain way.

um but either which way i had a great lot of fun with that it's still super super impressive um to look at visually audio wise on the surround sound it was absolutely on point um a little bit harder than i remember it's definitely the top end of arcade and leaning into the sim territory you can't just absolutely smash around there like mario kart that ain't happening And as soon as I got into the European open wheel formula, I was a bit like, my goodness gracious me, you better hand me some stabilizers, some driver assist, because this thing is undriveable.

Spar, I give it the big lips into Eau Rouge and then popped out and immediately span into the wall, rewound, had another go, made it, got down to the end of the track into Lake Huma, whatever it's called, and immediately stacked it on the back of someone.

So it's like, yeah.

Yeah, you need to simmer down a little bit in the open.

Um, so yeah, that's the dream.

Presumably it bolts through Eau Rouge quite well.

Oh, we haven't ever tried it yet, but I imagine it would.

Oh, we need to see that, don't we?

It's on the list.

Yeah.

That's, that's, uh, definitely a bucket list item, is driving it flat through Eau Rouge.

[laughs]

Yeah

... been up Eau Rouge, I've walked up Raidillon, and it is steep, let me tell you that.

Um, it's more sort of towards Nordschleife territory, which goes up and down about 300 meters over the course of 25 kilometers.

This is six kilometers, and it's going up and down 200 meters.

And like you said, that natural topography looks like it's creating a lot of dramatic undulation around this track, and we love to see some undulation.

We love a, we love an Eau Rouge.

We love a first corner at Austin.

We love a bit of undulation in Formula One.